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Directional alignment but completely different policy. Trying to claim they are the same is nonsense.

Immigration is clearly economic policy. It was partially justified on immigrants taking American's jobs. The war isn't strictly economic policy, but everybody could see it would ha…

Sounds like blaming the abolitionists for slavery. Or blaming the police for murder since they didn't prevent it. Every terrible thing Trump does is really somebody else's fault.

You don't think those two things have any effect on the economy?

That goes way back to before the founding. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable…

Pretty sure the Democrats would not have done either the ridiculous tariffs or the stupid Iran war. They wouldn't have passed anything like the BBB. Nor would they have tried to sc…

I don't see how that applies to insurance. The demand pays for it's own supply. The insurance company doesn't have to ramp up production somehow.

Most of the cuts were scheduled for after the midterms, you can guess why.

It seems fairly common in the US to have a hard time finding a doctor that will take your insurance, especially so if you are on Medicaid. Even with good insurance, a lot are just …

You have to wonder, since they are doing two different surveys trying to measure the same reality, which one more accurately measures the facts on the ground? Asking businesses how…

A lot of people question them. But the supreme Court has decided that giving money is equivalent to free speech, and can't be touched. I don't know how we will ever get out of that…

Somebody would have had to convince Biden not to run. I honestly don't know if anybody even tried.

It wasn't even a majority of voters, it was a plurality. It was 49.8%.

Blaming the people who aren't quite as good at politics for the actions of the people who actually won the last election and are fucking this country seems... Insane?

If you count the eastern empire, but most people only think of the western empire.

Maybe. It depends what you count as part of cooking the steak. I need to go to the market, find the steak I want, and purchase it, get it home, and put it in the fridge. Then when …

I hear electricity prices and noise about as often as water usage.

People like their local sports.

Heads up though: not every camera on that map is Flock. In my town, only a couple of Flock cameras are in place, on private property (Lowes is a big user). All the others are owned…

Here is an idea: the only way to win is a large and extremely costly invasion, actual troops on the ground for probably a decade. Nobody wants to pay that price. It was insane to s…

For the most part they come out of emotions that evolution found useful for procreation (love, fear, anger), then extrapolated to people living in small groups, then to larger soci…

Angela Collier has a terrific video about this : billionaires want you to know they could have done physics.

I typically see it labeled "uncured."

Because they formed partnerships when they were young and didn't know any better. And then once things get going, it seems better to "go along to get along" than face the difficult…

Why is that disappointing? Everything he said there seems perfectly reasonable.